"WW1 Trenches uncover fossil find" Topic
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Martin From Canada | 12 Apr 2017 10:09 a.m. PST |
link COLUMBUS, Ohio—An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world's oceans.An international research team found 425-million-year-old fossilized remnants of juvenile crinoids, a distant ancestor of today's sea lilies, encased in iron oxide and limestone in the Austrian Alps. Researchers collected the rock from a formation on the border between Italy and Austria known as the Cardiola Formation, which was exposed in trenches dug during World War I.[…] |
Cacique Caribe | 12 Apr 2017 10:14 a.m. PST |
And who says nothing good ever comes from war? :) Dan |
Winston Smith | 12 Apr 2017 11:29 a.m. PST |
Had they been discovered in 2017, "they" would have had to call off the war. |
JSchutt | 12 Apr 2017 12:24 p.m. PST |
How many other fossilized remains that were blown to smitheroons is yet to be determined…. |
zoneofcontrol | 12 Apr 2017 4:39 p.m. PST |
Winston- When I first read "WWI trenches" and then read dateline "Columbus, OH", I thought maybe they had to move the war because of the find. |
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